I'll agree that "ridiculous writing" isn't a reason to stop watching AMC, because anyone who starts watching a soap opera for writing grounded in reality is delusional. Even if sometimes the "ridiculous" becomes the "ludicrous". (I once argued with my mother for a month that Janet Green could not possibly have killed Will Cortlandt because all nine planets and a few thousand stars would have to have aligned for her to pull it off. And of course . . . )
For me, I stopped watching AMC because the show made me so ANGRY. I always felt like AMC was trying to see how far they could push their fans before they broke. They killed my favorite characters, annihilated my favorite couples, introduced horrible new characters, brought back horrible old ones - and really, when characters witness two other people at the worst possible moment for the SEVEN HUNDREDTH TIME, I lose patience.
But I wouldn't have gone running off to GL if they'd had this Otalia pairing back then. If I'd started watching a new soap, it would have been OLTL, and I didn't. I was just burned out on soaps after 10+ years.
Still, I will always miss the AMC of the mid-90s to early-00s (Bianca kisses Lena, the first Kendall, the SECOND Kendall, Greenlee/Leo, Adam and Tad throwing panties at each other, Janet hires an actor to be her ex, Trevor/Natalie as castaways, little girl Amanda, Edmund comes to his own funeral, Dmitri, Palmer, David/Anna, Jack/Erica, Stewart/Marian, Hayley catches Alec with Arlene, Noah/Julia, Laurel dies, Vanessa dies).
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For me, I stopped watching AMC because the show made me so ANGRY. I always felt like AMC was trying to see how far they could push their fans before they broke. They killed my favorite characters, annihilated my favorite couples, introduced horrible new characters, brought back horrible old ones - and really, when characters witness two other people at the worst possible moment for the SEVEN HUNDREDTH TIME, I lose patience.
But I wouldn't have gone running off to GL if they'd had this Otalia pairing back then. If I'd started watching a new soap, it would have been OLTL, and I didn't. I was just burned out on soaps after 10+ years.
Still, I will always miss the AMC of the mid-90s to early-00s (Bianca kisses Lena, the first Kendall, the SECOND Kendall, Greenlee/Leo, Adam and Tad throwing panties at each other, Janet hires an actor to be her ex, Trevor/Natalie as castaways, little girl Amanda, Edmund comes to his own funeral, Dmitri, Palmer, David/Anna, Jack/Erica, Stewart/Marian, Hayley catches Alec with Arlene, Noah/Julia, Laurel dies, Vanessa dies).
Sincerely, Allaine